AMERICAN HISTORY - JOHN SMITH AND NATIVE AMERICAN MAGICIANS Detail from fold-out plate in John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer , 1624. [Left] The conjurers (that is, the shamans and priests surround Smith and practise their ritual magic. Beyond the fire is an idol. [Right] The diminutive John Smith captures the Indian chief, in 1603.

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